Circle City News Commentary

David Honeyboy Edwards, the “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen” has died. Yesterday morning Monday August 29, 2011, about 3 am while resting peacefully at home, Honeyboy moved on to Blues Heaven. Please click here for more details.

An excellent point made in this blog article. Jared Bernstein has a little fun with Perry's declaration that as president he'd make Washington “as inconsequential in your lives as I can.” Over the last few years, government jobs have been awfully consequential in Texas: 47% of all government jobs added in the US between 2007… Read More Did you know one major factor in Rick Perry’s ‘Texas Miracle’ was government jobs? (via Under the Mountain Bunker)

A federal judge has ruled that a northern Indiana school district shouldn’t have disciplined two high school girls (not the two ladies in the stock photo above) who posted racy online photos of themselves posing with phallic lollipops and simulating sexual acts because the pictures were outside of school and are protected by the First… Read More Phallic Lollipops Are Protected Speech

The stage rigging over the main stage at the Main Grandstand at the Indiana State Fair collapsed.

Thursday Glenn Beck said that “these people” in the White House will start a race riot if they don’t win the 2012 election. Really? I think anyone that believes that crap may be a racist themselves. President Obama is as much White as he is Black. He surrounds himself with White people. His second-in-command, Vice… Read More Glenn Beck Predicts Race Riots!

A new report released by the ACLU touts changes that “tough on crime” states have made to reduce incarceration rates, save money, and lower crime rates. It also mentions Indiana’s efforts in sentencing reform.

A known liar that claimed to be an expert in wound patterns, trace metals, gun shot residue, gunshot reconstructions, blood splatters, tool marks, fingernail marks, liquid splash patterns and a crime scene investigator testified in at least 10 different States sending innocent people to prison.

When president Obama took office the stock market was around 7,000 and the economy was losing millions of jobs. A couple of years later and the stock market almost doubled to over 12,000. The economy started growing and jobs were being added each month. Then came the Tea Baggers. Their view on cutting government during… Read More Tea Bag Party Terrorists Tank Economy

Amanda Welch Boarding the Train

The article on FOX News PAC’s right wing website, FOX Nation, received so many racist comments (I read several of them) by their viewers that they finally had to close the comment section.

Here are a few pictures. More to come later.

I snapped this picture while downtown Indianapolis at the Capital building.

Thousands of federal inmates nationally and more than 200 from Indiana could get time shaved off their prison terms for crack-cocaine convictions, after the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to make reductions retroactive starting later this year.

This is Circle City News’s occupation of the month.

A four-person search committee continues reviewing applications of individuals who have expressed interest in becoming the next Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council director.

I must disagree with this list.

Yep, even though she has consistently railed against government welfare programs, she sure has not railed against receiving government welfare money. Please click here.

The only authenticated photograph of wild west gunslinger Billy the Kid sold for more than anticipated. Click here for more details.